Beirut
In Pollutant-Clogged Beirut, Rising Cancer Rates and Younger Patients
While Lebanon’s Health Ministry estimates an increase in cancer rates of 10 to 15 percent…
Limited Compensation and Tainted Procedures for the Beirut Port Explosion
Owners of many businesses near the Mukhtar’s office describe the volume of the damages and…
“Cyprus Confidential”: A Safe Haven for Salim Sfeir, the Head of the Association of Lebanese Banks and the Obstructionist of Lebanon’s Recovery Plan
For the first time, the Cyprus Confidential project reveals financial transactions carried out by Salim…
Hail Sultana: On Drag as Art, Performance, and Expression
Life can be both glamorous and humorous for us all, and like a well-kept secret…
Lebanon: “I Want to Go Home”
Some 30 Kenyans sleep outside the Kenyan consulate demanding to go home. As Lebanon is…
A Year since the Beirut Port Crime: Who Cares?
It has been a year since the Beirut port explosion ripped through the city. While…
As a Mother, I Wish I Could Silence the Sea
I never wrote anything about the Aug. 4 explosion in my mother tongue. Because I…
Dear Lebanon: Nando’s Is Not The House it Once Was
A heartfelt eyewitness account of August 4, 2020. Wissam was with his friends in Karantina…
Lebanon: Hezbollah Represents an very Advanced Model of Internationalization
With its call for “internationalization,” the Maronite patriarchate has played a card as old as…
Shock and Aftershock: a Psychologist’s Vista on Beirut 2020
When patients ask: “How are you”? I wonder: how much mirror do I give, and…